Bedload transport occurs when fluid shear stress becomes strong enough to entrain sediment. Recent studies show that the threshold for entrainment varies with the history of applied shear, with beds strengthening under sustained unidirectional flows and ...

In recent decades, there has been increasing effort toward modeling bedload transport using statistical ensembles for grain velocities, flight distance, and travel times. The forms of these probability distributions are integral to estimating sediment ...

We live on a soft matter landscape. Earth materials such as soil, mud, ice and rocks exist in a fuzzy state between solid and fluid, depending on the timesca...

We use particle tracks from laboratory experiments to study grain velocities and activity subject to fluid flows from different directions Our sand bed strengthens under unidirectional flows, but...

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